February 2011
316 posts
The Time Hack →
Oui, dear ladies and gentlemice.
I keep getting the overwhelming urge to reblog the above fine gentleman’s (The Time Hack) posts, but it’s a little hard to do that without five minutes of explanation every time, so I haven’t.
And yet, I want to support him because the idea behind this particular tumblr is a subject of some mutual fascination to him and I, it would seem. So I...
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in...”
– Joseph Conrad (via quote-book)
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
– Albert Einstein (via quote-book)
January 2011
245 posts
Les Paradis artificiels →
frenchtwist:
You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe? Charles Baudelaire, 1860
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via quote-book)
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to...”
– Sigmund Freud (via wandering-eyes)
grooviejazz:
‘Hands (Fandango de Huelva)’...
“A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via liquidnight)
Utterly self-possessed, remarkably carefree, irresistibly alive.
The Trouble with Bright Girls (Psychology Today) →
psychotherapy:
Successful women know only too well that in any male-dominated profession, we often find ourselves at a distinct disadvantage. We are routinely underestimated, underutilized, and even underpaid. Studies show that women need to perform at extraordinarily high levels, just to appear moderately competent compared to our male coworkers.
But in my experience, smart and talented...
localgod:
gaydee:
yes, please.
Roger...
Grizzly Bear // Shift
“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a...”
– Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (via psychotherapy)
Grizzly Bear // Shift
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One...”
– Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
“… the vocation to solitude is not a vocation to the warm narcissistic dream of a...”
– Thomas Merton (via yama-bato)
I just want it to be warm again so I can climb water towers with my friends without freezing to death.
Is that too much to ask?
Ah well, at least it’s Friday.
hahaha...
Sometimes my friend Steven says things, and generally they’re hilarious.
On Justin Beiber, when challenged for criticizing him:
“I guess I’m just against anything that would make a stampede of girls kill my father whilst my evil uncle plans to take over the entire pride.”
I like that guy.
Yeah, I don’t know man.
It’s been quite the climactic year. Building and building.
Depressed winter becomes freedom in the summer becomes opression in the fall becomes strength in the winter becomes freedom becomes reliance on the lord and a steadfast unwillingness to give up.
And if you understood everything that the above sentence meant to me you wouldn’t be judging me for...
ok, ok...
I yield.
I’ll start using the queue function.